EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:Maxfield & Hyer meta-analysis: A few questions
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 11/14/02 at 1:55 PM ET
You've said that EMDR and CBT are largely similar techniques - but perhaps you missed the other discussion in which we discussed that EMDR is quite different from exposure in the following sense. In exposure people's attention is turned (by means of the therapist repeating the elements of the trauma) to each snapshot of the traumatic memory until that piece is neutralized, and then goes on to the next snapshot. The total "movie" is repeatedly rerun until it comes up dry. In EMDR, only at the beginning is the therapist repeating the elements of the trauma, to "light up the net." Then the "movie" plays by itself, apparently pushed by the bilateral stim. The therapist doesn't repeat anything (although if the "movie" gets stuck we then do a cognitive intervention just barely enough to get it unstuck. So it's quite different from a client and a therapist perspective when one experiences it. I hope that critics and skeptics, who are welcome here in the name of science, understand that they are not exempt from blinders, and that includes the people who conduct research from a skeptic's vantage point. Blinders can be on either side.
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